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Evidence-Based Breastfeeding:

What Clinicians Need to Know

Description

Description

This three-hour course presents an overview of breastfeeding management that is evidence-based and designed to increase the knowledge and skills of those health care professionals who work with breastfeeding families. Included are research-based updates regarding the uniqueness of human milk, reduction of short- and long-term morbidities to babies, an overview of lactation physiology, latch-on and positioning techniques, and current clinical practice guidelines for normal breastfeeding management and discharge planning.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss unique benefits of breastfeeding to mother and baby.

Describe appropriate hospital care needed to assist the breastfeeding dyad in the immediate postpartum period

Describe importance of skin to skin care in stabilization of the newborn.